There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
TOM WAITSThere’s no prayer like desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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